I wasn’t looking for love.
Not then.
Not at the beginning of a new life in BTech, when everything felt so loud and unfamiliar.
But then… there she was.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4KmDwz5GO
In my class. Not with a bang — no. With a stillness that pulled me in.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5czLArsV29
Her eyes weren’t just eyes — they were answers I hadn’t known I was asking for. The way she carried herself, unaware of the spell she cast…
She wasn’t trying to be seen. That’s probably why I couldn’t look away.
And then — something close to a miracle.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1MbOYv7xB
A twist of fate, or maybe a cruel joke dressed as kindness.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlE9nHqI3r9
Our English teacher split the class into boy-girl pairs for an icebreaker — apparently to help us “communicate better”.
A task I would’ve laughed at on any other day. But that day, I whispered a prayer.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91xE2WRPbS
And somehow… the universe whispered back.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofPuhPrXpy
And somehow, she became my pair.
I still remember the rush — like every word I knew had vanished.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NZBAKdKdQ
But she broke the silence first.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyeb7zrmyT
Anime. Books. Songs.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkEhAJ0zQPq
She read stories I loved.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡghfvTnXom5
And she seemed like one.
Both a little introverted, both a little lost in our own worlds.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rWX85csl6
But somehow, we found each other in the same chapter.
She smiled when I spoke. I smiled because she listened.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzrv1z9XRsS
Time blurred. The bell rang.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQiwxz04AlQ
And just like that — it ended.
And we never spoke again.
But something strange kept happening — our buses, parked side by side every day. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe a second chance, parked beside me daily.
Still… I said nothing. Because I was afraid.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgmDYqj4pwO
Afraid of saying too much.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfueiAjp60a
Afraid of being misunderstood.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoODM3ZEYs
Afraid of being too much for someone who never asked for me in the first place.
I never even knew her real name. Not then. But I gave her one — quietly, in my own head.
Seren.
It means "star" in a language I don't speak, but somehow understood.
Because that’s what she felt like.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdH6ZNVYHjZ
Distant. Quiet. But somehow... always there.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIjvYe9vvb
Not burning bright — just being.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUsp5IqxHX
A kind of calm I wanted to orbit.
She never knew, of course. She never knew she was Seren to me.
I told myself — four years is a long time. I’ll talk to her again. When the time is right. But fate isn’t always patient.
In amidst of all, one day, she changed her branch.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9nOaYVjnc
Moved classes.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPfdVVfAUR
Moved… away.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGq77tqxjiA
And I was left wondering…
I stood there, not broken — but almost.
“How foolish of me,” I thought.
Waiting for the right time, without ever trying to make it right.
So now I ask— Will our paths cross again?61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡils6h3WK3U
Or was this always the story of a fool who named a girl Seren,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMUWHnZ2GVv
and never found the courage to tell her why?
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